Danielle Sisson, author Dr. Gordon Van Ness, faculty advisor awarded second place for best humanities paper The poems of James Dickey (1923-1997) address man’s spiritual place in the universe, endeavoring specifically to connect the poet with the world and more generally to make sense of man’s place in the universe. Dickey attempted such poetic connections … Continue reading →
Haley Vasquez, author Dr. Gordon Van Ness, faculty advisor At the time of his death in 1955, poet Wallace Stevens was largely considered a master of language within the modernist movement, able to look at physical reality and find value and purpose in it through the imagination. “all his [Stevens’] work is an attempt to … Continue reading →
Alexander Morton, author Dr. Elif Guler, faculty advisor Introduction Jony Ive, Senior Vice President of Design for Apple Inc., once said that “a truly great product is ultimately defined by the integration of its hardware and software” (Hajry). In September 2014, Mr. Ive was referring to the advent of the new iPhone 6 and iPhone … Continue reading →
Taylor Embrey, author Dr. David Magill, faculty advisor awarded second place for best humanities paper Chris Lynch’s Inexcusable follows its protagonist, Keir Sarafian, a respected football player, through his final year of high school. Lynch tells Kier’s story to explore adolescent identity, especially how that identity changes based on performance of gender. Throughout the novel, … Continue reading →
Casey Dawn Gailey, author Dr. Elif Guler, faculty advisor In 2006, the National Bullying Prevention Month campaign was established in the United States by the PACER (Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights) Center’s National Bullying Prevention Center. PACER, an organization that aims to help children and teens with disabilities, has recently expanded to incorporate the … Continue reading →
Anna Bultrowicz, author When Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was buried at Cambridge in March 1882 (Candido 103), he was one of the most influential poets of the 19th century both in the United States and across the Atlantic. Longfellow had achieved an unprecedented proto-celebrity status as a poet, responding to as many as twenty letters a … Continue reading →
In his 2001 novel Atonement, Ian McEwan presents a story brimming with allusions to other literary works. Briony Tallis, her elder sister Cecelia, and their childhood friend Robbie Turner are characters all heavily influenced by British literature. Robbie and Cecelia both studied literature at Cambridge, and Briony is an aspiring author. Briony is a thirteen … Continue reading →
Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill is a play about a family of four and their dysfunctional descent into oblivion. Mary is addicted to morphine, and the rest of the family alternates between pretending she isn’t and attempting to forget that she is by consuming alcohol. By the play’s end, every character is … Continue reading →